Autofs timeout?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 12:20 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:44:30AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Autofs timeout?
> > From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
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> > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:44:30 -0700
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> > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:40 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > I'm using autofs+nfs combo on all my workstations.
> > > These machine are also used for software testing and crash a -lot-.
> > > Problem is - both nfs and autofs are notorious for going zombie once the
> > > host server dies.
> > > 
> > > Any idea how I can get the nfs-client (and/or the autofs) to time-out
> > > gracefully / error out, when the nfs server dies instead of just hanging
> > > till the end of time?
> > ----
> > what's the host server?  RHEL?  CentOS?
> > 
> > Is this your issue?
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453094
> 
> And also does the fstab and autofs mount line contain the intr flag?
> 
>        intr           If an NFS file operation has a major timeout and  it  is
>                       hard  mounted,  then  allow signals to interupt the file
>                       operation and cause it to return EINTR  to  the  calling
>                       program.  The default is to not allow file operations to
>                       be interrupted.
> 
> see also "bg" and "soft".
> 
> Depending on what software testing is testing these might help.
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in light of the current regression bug in RHEL and NFS, it would seem
that adding the 'intr' option would be useful.

How/where would one add mount options to LDAP auto mounts?

Craig